“I had to hand my children over with my daughter crying and pleading for her mummy.

“They took my baby daughter away on the day she was born in December. I’d never do anything to hurt them. They are my life. I love them very much and no matter what happens I’ll always be there for them.

“I am sorry for what happened. Hopefully they will forgive me. They are in foster care and I get to see them three days a week.”

But Taylor defiantly maintains her children should be returned to her and said: “I’ll never stop fighting for them and will do everything I can to get them back even if it means they are teenagers.

“I am now engaged to a lovely bloke who is right behind me.”

Taylor, originally from Cambridge, has returned to the city from Victoria Road West, Hebburn, where she moved to be with Gray who she met on an internet dating sight. He has remained there and when spoken to on his doorstep refused to comment.

As revealed in Friday night’s Chronicle, Newcastle’s most senior judge Recorder David Hodson said he was left with no option but to impose suspended sentences on the couple in the light of the “charade” he witnessed in court.

Taylor’s twins were left with shaking and impact injuries, but prosecutors had to accept a guilty plea to child neglect on the basis that neither of them would admit inflicting the injuries.

As a result, rather than getting jail terms they were each given 51 weeks suspended for two years.

Judge Hodson said: “Clearly the injuries were caused by one or the other but it can’t be said which one.

“The court finds itself in an impossible position, it is something of a charade the court has to go through.

“This is deeply unsatisfactory.”

Imogen had been taken to hospital on December 12, 2007, where it was discovered she had multiple injuries to her head, knee, buttocks and shoulder.

An examination of Oliver showed he was also covered in bruises.

From the outset Taylor and Gray refused to accept they were personally responsible for the injuries.

But they eventually pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of neglect on the basis they failed to protect the children from harm, failed to get medical attention but that they did not inflict the injuries.